My ideal scenario is one where the existing OMEMO implementations do not
need to change anything, including republishing their identity keys in a
new format. I think that non-libsignal clients should be responsible for
the conversions on their end.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Remko Tronçon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here's a proposal for the OMEMO key exchange that requires *no* changes to
> libsignal: Public Identity keys are Ed25519 keys with the highest bit (sign
> bit) 0.
>
> - LibSignal-based clients convert their internal Curve25519 identity key
> to Ed25519 right before the device bundle publish IQ, and convert the peer
> key to Curve25519 when fetching the bundle IQ.
> - On device initialization, non-libsignal clients guarantee a keypair that
> LibSignal can handle by generating identity keypairs until the highest bit
> of the public key is set to 0 (there's a 1 in 2 chance).
>
> Chris Ballinger seemed open to this proposal.
>
> Remko
>
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